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16:43 ¢ 25.09.09
ARF-D is a ‘Demander,’ While RPA is the `Owner of the Homeland’: A
Senseless Debate
Armenian Revolutionary Federation ` Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) and
Republican Party (RPA) MPs Artsvik Minasian and Gagik Melikian held a
debate on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols today.
`Our issue is not to ask for the resignation of any official; our
issue, really, is that the entire nation understands, that this
requires the collective will of all of us. We will make use of all
opportunities in line with legislation to move the fight ahead,’
Artsvik Minasian stated during the debate.
Gagik Melikian didn’t share this opinion, stating they are not
demanders; rather, they are the owners of their homeland. Minasian, in
his turn, inquired what he means by `owner of their homeland’.
`It is very clear, we are the owners and Western Armenia is our
ancestors’ and our homeland. No one is going to offer our historical
homeland to us on a silver platter, even if we demand it. We must
struggle, and do so with a strong country, with a strong state. And to
have a strong state one must first have a strong leadership,’
Mikaelian said.
`Not being demanding we can not create a homeland,’ stated Minasian in
his turn, and Mikaelian answered:
`We say, that homeland is ours, and you say, we only demand that
homeland.’
The debate before the journalists was heating up. Minasian proposed to
Melikian that he go to Turkey and put RPA’s flag near Kars.
According to Melikian they have put not one flag but many. Recently
they have put one on Ararat (Masis).
Minasian retorted by proposing RPA organize an election in Turkey. And
they continued this way. The members of parliament were arguing
senselessly, refraining from giving serious political evaluations.
Though the RPA representative stated that he had concerns with the
Protocols, in his opinion, the document must be approved. The ARF-D
representative, on the other hand, also had numerous concerns, but
insisted that the document should be refu
either the Armenian Revolutionary Federation nor the Republican Party
had anything new to add, instead choosing to turn the debate into
senseless arguments.
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